TELEGRAM TO KULLERVO MANNER

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UrgentGovernmental.Secret

MannerPeople’s Government of FinlandHelsingfors

Irequest you immediately to obtain information from
Centrobalt regarding the arrival of Swedish cruisers at
Öland and the landing of troops by the Swedes. Be so kind
as to let me know by telegraph as quickly as possible what
information the Finnish Workers’ Government has aboutthis and what its attitude is to this whole matter and to
the intervention of Swedish armed
forces.[1]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Therevolutionary People’s Government of Finland sent a protest
to the Swedish Government in connection with the landing of
their troops on the Aland Islands. Sweden shortly withdrew her
troops from the islands. In mid-March 1918, German troops were
landed there and were used by the German Government to fight
against the Finnish revolution.